Author Bios

Maziar Shirazi is an Iranian-American family physician completing his residency training in Philadelphia.

Kari Koch is a community organizer with the housing justice movement in Portland, Oregon, and works with We Are Oregon, a community-based, union-funded group that organizes with working people …

Dawn Paley is a freelance journalist who has been reporting from South America, Central America, and Mexico for over ten years. Her writing has been published in The Nation, The Guardian, Vancouver Sun, …

Christopher Fasano is an attorney in the New York Legal Assistance Group's Storm Response Unit.

Eduardo Galeano (1940-2015), born in Montevideo, Uruguay, was an essayist, journalist, historian and activist, as well as one of Latin America's most beloved literary figures. Galeano's books include the …

Josh Solomon is a reporter for the Medill News Service.

Matt Carter is a contributor to Occupy.com.

Michelle Goldstein is a licensed clinical social worker working as a mental health therapist. She incorporates holistic approaches into her counseling practice. She is a mother who found a …

Boaventura de Sousa Santos is professor of sociology at the University of Coimbra (Portugal), director of the university's Center for Social Studies and Distinguished Legal Scholar at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. …